“Charming” … “polished” … “writerly.” “Michelle Maisto is Doris Day.” — The New York Times

“First-time memoirist Maisto turns out a subtle valentine to cooking and New York City life in this chronicle of two foodies in love.” — Publisher’s Weekly

“Foodies who have also navigated a valuable and deepening relationship fraught with eating concerns will especially enjoy this story of passions of the heart and table, filled with glorious descriptions of meals and the couple’s special recipes.” — Book Reporter

“An imminently readable memoir, you have been warned — it will make your mouth water.” —The Independent Weekly

”The Gastronomy of Marriage by Michelle Maisto is a book I just want to hug or maybe marry. I loved it, it definitely makes the cut for a space on my bookshelf.” — Literacy Love 

“The Gastronomy of Marriage” is a memoir about relationships, identity and two lives coming together at the dinner table. About having nothing to eat when the cupboard is bare and nothing to eat when it’s full. And about sharing a meal each night with a person who was raised in another household and so has different traditions and approaches to eating, different comfort foods, small allergies and dislikes, a body with a superior metabolism and a stunning catalogue of digestive maladies — and who, if all goes according to plan, will be the person I share my dinners with always. 

To my enormous delight, Random House published “The Gastronomy of Marriage” in 2009, and it has since also been released in Australia and Poland. It was a Barnes & Noble “Discover” book and a Target Breakout Book.

You can read more about it — including an excerpt — here, and order it here or here.